St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-09-24

NAVY Department over the slow progress of
the United States steamship Thetls toward
Alaska. She sailed several months ago from
Portsmouth, and when last heard from was
at Callao, Peru 1t is considered doubtful if
she can reach Alaska, where she is to assist
in protecting the sealeries, before the winter
closes in.
Professor Riley, superintendent of Indian
schools, in speaking of the education Of In
dian children, says that unfortunately the
government did not have buildings enough
to accommodate more than one-half of the
Indian children who would attend school.
The only Indians now opposed to the educa-
ton of their children were the Utes, in Colo
RADIO, and he thought they would give in
before long. The greatest need of Indian
schools, he says, is on the Sioux reservation.
The fishing schooner Geraldine has ar
rived at Canso, Nova Scotia, from the Grand
Banks. Besides having her decks swept she
lost fourteen dories and everything movable.
One man was lost. The captain reports
great loss of life among the hand-line fisher
men on the Grand Banks by the recent
fierce gales.
The British ship Darien has arrived at Bal
timore and reports a sunken steamer sixtsen
miles northeast of Winter Quarter light,
near the mouth of Chesapeake bay. The
foremast is standing and the funnel visible.
A dispatch from Milwaukee, Wis, says
the barges Anglo-Saxon and Smith, of the
steamer Mattawans tow, which are ashore
at Waugoshanee, have been abandoned.
While adjusting the steam pump on the
barge Smith it slid to leeward and crushed
Captain Ulysses to death against the rail.
The annual session of the Great Council of
the United States Improved Order of Red
Men has begun in Wilmington. Nearly all
the States and Territories were represented.
The present membership was reported at
63,Ol6, an increase of II, 753 during the year.
The annual session of the Select Castle,
Knights of the Mystic Chain, has begun in
Lancaster, Pa, with delegates present from
all parts of the State. There was a parade
of the order, 800 men being in line The
order has membership in the State Of 1912,
and last year paid out s19, 442 for relief.
D. T. Litter, of the Pacific railway COM
mission has begun an investigation in Chi
Pacific Railroad Company, which was SUBJ
sidized by the government to the extent of
81, 500, 900. The investigation was held in
the Office of President Hughitt, of the North
western Company, the organization which
absorbed the Sioux City and Pacific. The
prime object of the meeting was to investi-
gate the ability of the Sioux City and Pacific
railroad to liquidate its Indebtedness to the
United States.
The Southern Pacific Railway Company
WILL it is stated, shortly forward Il PROPOSE
ton to it's Eastern connections, offering to
carry emigrants from Chicago to San Fran
cisco on the basis of SIS for through rates
provided the Eastern lines will accept pro
rata proportion of the through rate. The de-
clared object is to give rate which will in
duce emigrants to journey to the Pacific
coast
William W. Reed & Bros, merchants
and coal operators at Dudley, Pa, have made
an assignment. The liabilities are placed at
SIS, 1000. They became involved through the
failure of Robert Hare Powell, Sons & Co.
The vein of rock salt discovered at Els
worth, Kas., is reported to be 165 feet thick
and ninety-six per cent. pure, the other four
per cent. being lime and magnesia, but no
potash. The salt is pure white and fit for
table use on grinding only. The vein is 7O5
feet below the surface.
Five hundred miners employed by Cabel
& Co., at Washington. Ind, have struck in
support of demand for sixty cents per ton
and 81 IS per day for day hands, and that
mines be operated under the scale fixed by
the Miners and Mine Owners Federation.
Lieutenant Governor R. W. Waterman
has taken the oath Of Office as governor of
California, the executive chair having been
made vacant by the death of Governor
Bartlett.
An effort is being made in Tolono, Ill, to
enforce the State law making education COM
pulsory. Boys found on the streets during
school hours are promptly arrested without
warrants and locked up in the calaboose I'M
less they can satisfactorily explain their ab-
sence from school.
Preceding and during the county conven-
ton at Binghamton, N. Y, many delegates
stood in front of the Binghamton Savings
Bank building, adjoining the convention
hall, and discussed the political situation.
The notion got abroad that a run on the bank
was in progress, which increased as the
rumor spread, when run really did begin.
Hundreds of depositors anxiously presented
themselves, but, as all demands were
promptly met, confidence was restored, and
the rush was checked. The bank is said to
be thoroughly solvent.
The strike in the middle coal region of
Pennsylvania, about which there had been
much doubt, has begun. The collieries idle
are those of A. Pardee & Co., at Hazletonn,
Cranberry and Crystal Ridge; Pardee Sons
& Co., at Mount Pleasant; Pardee Bros. q
Co., at Lattimer; G. Pardee & Co., at Holly
wood; Coke Bros. & Co., at Drifton, Stock
ton, Beaver Meadow, Eckley, Gowen, Tom
hicken and Derringer; Linderman Skeer at
Stockton and Humboldt; W. T. Carter q
Co., at Coleraine; J. G. Hayden d Co., at
GAINESVILLE; Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal
Company, at Audenreid; Stout Coal Com
pany, at Milnesville; G. II. Myers, at York
town; g. B. Markle & Co., at Jeddo; and
the collieries at Tresckow and Beaver Brook.
The strike is for an advance of fifteen per
cent, and it is said that $4,000 men are af-
fected.
Burglars, disguised as porters, entered
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